Healthbox is now a part of the HIMSS family, the global leader in transforming health through information and technology. Healthbox will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of HIMSS -- continuing to serve our clients and partners while contributing meaningfully to the broader HIMSS portfolio.

How can healthcare organizations take the first step in developing their own innovation program? Is it better to be a producer or consumer of innovation? Can an organization do both? Join Healthbox to explore these considerations and outline best practices in executing a successful internal and external innovation program.

Healthbox is now accepting applications for the 2018 Healthbox Studio program. The five-day Studio program is dedicated to advancing innovative digital health solutions through peer-to-peer collaboration, speaker sessions, and cultivating relationships with both the Healthbox team and our network of healthcare leaders, investors, and industry partners.

Happy new year from the Healthbox and the Podcast team! We are working hard on some great new series coming up in 2018 but before releasing those, we sat down with Healthbox President Neil Patel to hear about what he’s seeing in the healthcare innovation space and what he is predicting for 2018.

New Year's Resolutions can be challenging, but getting serious about digital health in 2018 can pay serious dividends. Healthbox shares 8 digital health resolutions for providers to kick off the new year.

Healthbox, a leading healthcare innovation services firm, is seeking an organized, creative, and resourceful Chief of Staff. The Chief of Staff will work across the organization to lead administrative functions and provide operational support to Business Development, Outreach & Engagement, and HR/Finance management as well as senior leadership.

This week’s episode is a special bonus episode recorded live at the 2017 Healthbox Fall Forum with three fantastic guests. The theme of the Healthbox Forum was Innovating Behavioral Change in Healthcare and each of our guests reflected on their biggest takeaways of the Forum and what they can do at their organizations with the knowledge they gained.

Healthbox Forum events bring together healthcare leaders and innovators in a small group setting to explore important industry topics and to think creatively about how to implement actionable change. This November, we invited a group of stakeholders from across the industry to explore innovating behavioral change in healthcare. Building off this momentum, we are excited to share insights from the Healthbox Forum to spur more discussion across the innovation community.

Our guest today, Dr. Sam Volchenboum, is the Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Chief Research Informatics Officer, and Director, Center for Research Informatics at University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Volchenboum is an expert in pediatric cancers and blood disorders. He has a special interest in treating children with neuroblastoma, a tumor of the sympathetic nervous system.

Our guest today, Elad Benjamin, joins the podcast from Israel for the second episode in our series on innovation and the use of AI in healthcare. Elad is CEO and Co-Founder of Zebra Medical Vision and is a veteran Healthcare IT executive with over 20 years of experience in software and medical devices, in both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He has held senior roles in Healthcare IT companies, including playing key roles in taking companies public on the NASDAQ as well as managing complex global businesses implementing solutions in medical providers worldwide. Elad holds a BsC from Tel Aviv University and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Having looked at the history of AI and machine learning, as well as some of the strategies employed by today’s data scientists, in the first part of this article, we’ll now explore how three companies are using these techniques to transform the healthcare industry.

Our guest today, Kevin Freedman, joins me to talk about innovation and the use of AI in healthcare. Kevin is founder of NextPhase Partners, a firm providing independent support and guidance to entrepreneurs as they guide their companies through their next phases of growth. Prior to NextPhase, Kevin was an operating partner at Khosla Ventures and has more than 15 years of operating experience with leadership roles in both consumer and enterprise technology companies.

This week’s bonus episode was recorded live at the 2017 Healthbox Studio Showcase! Healthbox hosts the program to support and advance entrepreneurial innovation, which aligns with our overall mission to empower the reinvention of healthcare. The program helps accelerate emerging digital health companies and fosters relationships between startup founders and industry leaders. Healthbox hosts the program free of charge to selected companies with no required equity exchange. The Studio ran from October 9-13 at the Healthbox office in Chicago, IL and featured presentations, workshops, and mentor sessions from the Healthbox team and other industry leaders.
In this episode, host Chuck Feerick sat down with four participants from the Studio to explore what their companies do and the problems they solve, what some of their biggest takeaways from the week were, a favorite session or two from the week, and what is the first thing they’ll do once they get back to their teams.

Our guest today, Drew Schiller, Co-Founder & CEO at Validic, joins Chuck on the Podcast for the final episode in our series around interoperability in Healthcare. Validic is a technology platform for convenient, easy access to digital health data from best-in-class clinical and remote-monitoring devices, sensors, fitness equipment, wearables and patient wellness applications.

It is not a one size fits all to restore joy in practice and improve the provider experience. Determining the optimal digital health solution and measuring success or ROI will be role, specialty, and patient population specific.

On this week’s episode, we welcome Leland Brewster back on the program for the second part of our series around interoperability in healthcare! Leland is the Director of Fund Management for Healthbox and supports Intermountain Innovation Fund-related activities and heads Healthbox's seed investments in addition to supporting portfolio management efforts across all of its investment vehicles. Prior to joining Healthbox, Leland worked for Clarion Healthcare, a boutique life sciences consultancy in Boston. At Clarion, he was involved in multiple product commercialization and launch readiness projects, as well as the design and launch of a one-of-a-kind patient and physician support program. Leland received his BA in Economics and Chemistry from Williams College and received his MBA from Chicago Booth.

Healthbox announced today the addition of Sumit Nagpal as Managing Director. Nagpal is a life-long health and social care innovator, a relentless entrepreneur and leader, and a hands-on technologist committed to applying his skills to help transform healthcare. He brings a wealth of experience to the company with practical successes across multiple high-growth companies.

This week’s episode is the first part of our new podcast series around Interoperability. Joining host Chuck Feerick on the program is Niko Skievaski, the Co-founder and President of Redox. Based in Madison Wisconsin, Niko started Redox in 2014 to reduce barriers to entry in healthcare technology and has thus created a Modern API for EHR integration. Niko is a board member and co-founder of 100State, Wisconsin’s largest co-working space as well as co-founding BreadcrumbsQA, a searchable Q&A knowledge management platform originally deployed at Epic.

Machine learning and, by extension, applied AI is transforming a growing number of industries at an accelerating pace. In this month's article, part one of two, Healthbox goes beyond the buzzwords to provide an understanding of the statistical techniques reshaping the practice of medicine.